Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...saddest hearts in all of Europe last week was that of Pope Pius XII. He had been hailed at his election as a shrewd diplomat who would be an authoritative moral policeman among Europe's thugs. He succeeded a man who had learned early in life (in sorry Poland, ironically, where he was Papal Nuncio just after World War I) to fight against extreme ideologies, and who late in life had waged that fight-particularly against Naziism-with superhuman strength. "No good Catholic" Pius XI had said "can be a Socialist"-and before he died he made clear especially...
...property, sink its ships, kill its people. Person most intimately concerned last week with keeping the U. S. out of the European war was the tall, athletic, dressy, rich, charming U. S. Ambassador to Poland, Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, who, without training, has proved himself an intelligent, far- sighted diplomat. He could do nothing about U. S. ships, but he quickly moved most U. S. citizens out of killing range, persuaded them to sell their property or move it with them. One citizen he did not move: his wife. One property which remained in American hands, and was bombed...
...Cambridge, he made friends with future Philosopher Bertrand Russell and future Diplomat Maurice Baring. Cutup Baring sometimes filled Marsh's French pastry with quinine, sometimes wrote such T. S. Eliot poetry...
CLIVE OF PLASSEY -A. Mervyn Davies - Scribner ($3.75). Most people remember Robert, Lord Clive as a figure in Henty's With Clive In India. There was little else to read about him until last week A. Mervyn Davies, onetime British diplomat and author of Warren Hastings filled the gap with a solid, non-spark, thoroughly readable, 522-page biography, Clive of Plassey...
Author Nicolson's sly habit of poking polite fun at pomposity while paying his respects to pompous bigwigs, made many people wonder just how well Author Nicolson and Diplomat Nicolson got along together. Diplomacy leaves little doubt that Author Nicolson takes Diplomat Nicolson very seriously, that though Author Nicolson resigned from the Foreign Affairs Committee in disagreement with Prime Minister Chamberlain after Munich, Diplomat Nicolson has by no means given up Cabinet hopes...